24 September, 2004
Interview with me (Josh On)
Here is an interview with me after a talk I gave at Ars Electronica this year. Check out Sebastian Campion's (he was the interviewer) website - lots of great projects to absorb.
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20 July, 2004
Social Circles
Compare the shapes made by different email lists with Social Circles by Marcos Wescamp creator of Newsmap. Also they have a DIY version for watching your own email.
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16 July, 2004
Rasterbation is good for you
Make massive posters with Rasterbator. You can upload an image using this flash app, which then allows you to decide how many pices of paper you want it printed on. It turns your images into the black and white dotted images that you see in newspapers so that it scales well. You recieve the resulting image in a pdf file. Brilliant.
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5 July, 2004
Download the They Rule Database
I have put up the they rule database for people to download. Perhaps someone can make an interface to keep this up to date in some sort of collaborative fashion. Please let me know if you do something with this data. It is probably best that you put a disclaimer on the data - as it will have some errors in there and it will date. Amy Balkin and I collated it earlier in 2004 from the top 500 US corporate websites - and we have included the URLs of the pages on which we found the info. This should make it easier for people to keep up to date. If someone does keep it up to date - please let us plug in a they rule front end into your dataset! Presently, it is in SQL format, and I think the structure needs some work. It might make more sense to break out the connections between the directors and the companies (and institutions) into a seperate connections table.
Here it is: theyrule2004.sql
Use it as you will, no need to credit us, though we wouldn't object! Let us know what you do with it: josh@theyrule.net
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4 July, 2004
A wave of political documentaries.
The phenomena of Fahrenheit 9/11 is turning out people out in droves to see a political documentary is not a completely isolated event. There is a thirst for political explanations for the general situation that we live in. The fact that there is enough to go around and yet we live in a system that creates scarcity and demands war requires some analysis. The last couple of years have seen a spate of excellent political documentaries. Here are a few:
Thirst is a film about the global resistance to the privatization of water.
The Corporation looks at the entity of the corporation. They have the legal staus of a person - but what sort of 'people' are they?
Control Room takes a look at the coverage of the American War on Iraq, concentrating on the network news station Al Jazeera.
Forth World War documents global resistance to imperialism, colonialism and privatization.
The Revolution will not be Televised tracks the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, through an attempted coup on his presidency. You see the poorest people of the country rise up to defeat the coup.
John Pilger's recent films 'Palestine is still the issue' and 'Breaking the Silence' can not go without mention. Pilger has a knack for getting interviews with politicians and powerful individuals and then asking them very direct questions that completely break their attempts to appear calm.
Battle Ground is a film from GNN that is coming out soon. I am not sure how left wing it will be - as they claim it: "will challenge the orthodoxies of Left and Right." If by left wing orthodoxies - they mean they right wing policies of the Democratic Party that voted for the war - then it could be good.
Please suggest more that should be on this list.
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29 June, 2004
Exxon vs. the Environment
Amy Balkin and I, recently helped to make this website for Greenpeace. The information is detailed and condemning.
Exxon Secrets is the first chapter of a larger Greenpeace project provide a research database of information on the corporate funded anti-environmental movement.
The database compiles Exxon Foundation funding to a series of institutions who have worked to undermine solutions to global warming and climate change in recent years. Individuals working with these organizations and their global warming quotes and deeds are detailed. There are downloadable source documents or links to sources are provided throughout.
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29 June, 2004
Navigator
They Rule is on display in Taiwan at NAVIGATOR a show of digital art.
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24 June, 2004
A great map by Mikro
TEN RICHEST PEOPLE is a great example of what can be done in they rule.
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17 June, 2004
Four letter words
This is a 3d graph of four letter words. Other that than the technical genius behind the programming and the prettiness of the final effect - what I really like is that the whole graph wobbles in order to reveal its 3d structure.
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7 June, 2004
I met a nurse who doesn't have healthcare
Last Saturday, I went to a demontration against the continuing occupation of Iraq, the continued US funding of aparthied Israel and for more funding for education and healthcare. Near the end of a march I met a woman who was equally outraged by the contradictions between the claims of democracy and freedom and reality. It turns out that she was a nurse who had no healthcare benefits. The irony is as inescapable as the situation is disgusting. I believe that her situation is analagous to the condition that most people in the U.S. find themselves in. This article on the working poor demonstrates that well. The people who do the work - don't reap the benefits, or have any meangiful say in what gets made or done.
Categories: activism left & socialist
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2 June, 2004
Videogame theory
I have been stealing links from: Ludology.org. Here is the decription from the site:
Ludology.org is an online resource for academic videogame researchers. It has been published by Gonzalo Frasca since May, 2001.
Ludology - as best I can make out is latin for the study of games. See Gonzalo Frasca's thesis: Videogames Of The Oppressed - Videogames As A Means For Critical Thinking And Debate which I have only skimmed and it looked very interesting - for a more detailed description of his approach.
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2 June, 2004
Virtual Protest
Euromayday net parade is a cute online May Day protest. Workers of the World Unite!
This is a great example of showing a crowd on-screen, and of using screenspace as a social visualization. Bravo!
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